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India reaches out to Lankan Tamils - Hindustan Times

India on Friday inaugurated a number of development projects in the northern province including a consulate in Jaffna in an attempt to reach out to the ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils thousands of whom continue to live in makeshift homes since the civil war ended in May, 2009. Visiting Indian external affairs minister, SM Krishna, unveiled a $416 million railway project to revive railway links between parts of the Sinhalese-dominated central-north province with the Tamil-dominated districts of the northern province.
In Jaffna, Krishna handed over hundreds of tractors as part of the pledge to donate 500 of those vehicles to revive agriculture in the north.

Later, he inaugurated a pilot project to build 1,000 houses for the Tamils displaced by war. It was part of the 50,000 houses a government-affiliated Indian company would build in the next few years.

During his whirlwind four-stop tour, Krishna reiterated the need for a political settlement to Sri Lanka’s long-standing ethnic issue.

“We are convinced that a meaningful devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment (which India had pushed and signed with Sri Lanka in 1987), would create the necessary conditions for a lasting political settlement,” Krishna said.

India’s stress on the rapid development in the north could be seen as an attempt to counter the feeling among ethnic Tamils that New Delhi had deserted them and sided with Colombo.
 
very appreciative move by indian government...finally they have did something to the tamils in srilanka...the 13th amendment was also a good move in 1987
 
INDIAN FM KRISHNA HAS ‘NO TIME’ FOR TNA

Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today concluded his four-day visit to Sri Lanka without meeting the country’s main Tamil political party the Tamil National Alliance.

The TNA said Krishna was to hold talks with them today (28 November) morning, but the meeting was put off till noon giving him time to return to Colombo from the southern town of Hambantota where he opened a consulate.

“Later we were told that the minister is flying straight from Hambantota to the (international) airport and there is no possibility to have the scheduled meeting,” TNA legislator Suresh Premachandra told PTI.

Tamil parties were disappointed over the failure to meet Krishna who had been pushing Sri Lanka to press ahead with devolution of power after the end of hostilities last year.


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Is closeness with Tamils still not appreciated by Colombo?

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The President of Sri Lanka expressed appreciation for India's substantial and generous assistance including through a grant of Indian Rupees 500 crore for the humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). He noted that the steps taken by India for humanitarian assistance, including supply of family packs of food and clothing, medicines, setting up of a field hospital and an artificial limb fitment camp and for the resettlement of IDPs, including provision of shelter material, cement bags and agricultural implements and deployment of de-mining teams, were important and timely.

. It was stated that the process of resettling the limited number still remaining in the transit facilities would be further expedited. Both leaders agreed on the urgent need for the resettlement of the remaining IDPs, along with speedy rehabilitation, reconstruction and development in the North and the East of Sri Lanka. They agreed to work closely towards this end. In this context, India’s assistance to rebuild infrastructure, including railway infrastructure, set up several Vocational Training Centres, repair and construct schools, houses, stadium and recreational facilities, supply much-needed inputs for agricultural regeneration and undertake several other projects was greatly appreciated.

Both leaders announced a major initiative to undertake a programme of construction of 50,000 houses for Internally Displaced Persons in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The President of Sri Lanka warmly welcomed the offer of Indian support for this programme.

The President of Sri Lanka expressed his appreciation for the generous and concessionary credit facilities amounting to about US$ 800 million offered by India for the railway projects in Sri Lanka. The two leaders directed that the relevant agreements on the lines of credit for requisite amounts be concluded within two months, so that there is no delay in the commencement of the projects.

Both leaders expressed satisfaction at the progress of work on the Colombo-Matara railway line being constructed with Indian assistance, and directed that the project be completed in a timely manner.
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